KINDS OF HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY AN D THE PERINATAL STATE OF THE CHILD

A prospective study analyses the course of pregnancy and the delivery of 315 women suffering from hypertension during their pregnancy. The p erinatal state of the child is analysed as to the prevailing kind of h ypertension. Gravidae suffering from gestation and chronical hypertens ions, resp. (three forth of all kinds) delivered at birth term an eutr ophic child. The proportion of spontaneous deliveries, acidosis morbid ity, and of Apgar score was in correspondence with the average of all deliveries per annum without hypertension. The perinatal mortality amo ng all kinds of hypertension was 1.6% caused only by children from gra vidae suffering from preeclampsia and chronical nephropathy (correspon ding to a quarter of all kinds). In comparison with gestation hyperten sion, chronical hypertension and the annual average of all deliveries, such gravidae prematurely delivered hypotrophic children of high acid osis morbidity and a worse, Apgar score. Gravidae suffering from preec lampsia had an 80% abdominal delivery frequency. The prognosis of the child is made worse by appearance and severity of proteinuria.